Adapted from information at www.detroitreptheatre.com/aboutus.htm. The Detroit Repertory Theatre is one of the country's few remaining neighborhood-based professional ...

Detroit Repertory Theatre co-founder Barbara Busby died on Tuesday, Aug. 16, the company announced Monday. The Detroit Rep has been a staple in the city’s theatre community since Busby and a ...

You’d be wrong. Wilson’s writing puts Ma Rainey’s band as the characters that we spend the most time with, but the Detroit Repertory Theatre’s production allows each actor to have their ...

Detroit Repertory Theatre continues its exploration of legendary playwright August Wilson’s Century Cycle with “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” a work especially well known to many since 2020 ...

Meredith Parker (background, L) and Rebecca Rose Mims in Dominique Morisseau's "Confederates," running through March 16 at Detroit Public Theatre. The glaringly obvious problems inherent to ...

The Detroit Repertory Theatre is Michigan’s longest running non-profit professional theatre. The Rep is known for its pioneer efforts in race, ethnic and gender transcendent casting and has ...

In a rundown Chicago recording studio in 1927, tempers rise and simmering conflicts erupt when the “Mother of the Blues” and her band record a set of jazz and blues standards. Fiery and ...

(Her shrill, plaintive wails are still ringing in my head.) And Will Street, a familiar face in Detroit theater, shines brightly with his layered work as Malik, Sandra’s combative student ...